Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a theory would have to be based on the equations of fluid motion instead of those of the dynamics of molecules interacting only through elastic collisions . |
| 2 | ORKNEY Harbours Authority is calling for a helicopter to be based on the islands for rescue work and pollution control , following the Braer oil tanker disaster in Shetland . |
| 3 | This is unfair criticism — Gooch produces a mass of indicative , albeit necessarily speculative , evidence in favour of his hypothesis — but nevertheless it is true that our knowledge of the past is and has to be based on the artefacts surviving from that past : lacking the artefacts , all we can do is make an educated deduction . |
| 4 | It purports to be based on the recollections of courtiers and retainers hunted up after the fall : but I have heard it suggested that the author did not take to the Picador edition 's cover display of a picture of Haile Selassie , perhaps on the grounds of a misleading particularity . |
| 5 | This book seems to be based on the techniques I have long suspected some producers use to keep a discussion going for the full length of a programme whether there is anything in it or not , to keep up the emotional temperature even about unexciting things , and to emit statements which are just distorted enough to get people objecting , whether they are worth objecting to or not . |
| 6 | The script calls for graffiti to be sprayed on the windows , a special easy-to-clean paint is used . |
| 7 | Stuart is too good to be kept on the sidelines at a time when England have looked to include him in the B squad as the next stage of his international career . |
| 8 | He submitted that , if a national court is considering whether to grant an interlocutory injunction in a case such as the present , where the validity of the law sought to be enforced is challenged by the defendant on the ground that it is inconsistent with Community law , the question whether the court should require an undertaking in damages from the plaintiff as a condition of the grant of an injunction is to be decided on the principles applicable to that question under the national law , being a question of procedure which , on established principles of Community law , is left to the national law . |
| 9 | 1.10 Whether there should be a reduction for contributory negligence and the amount of such reduction is a question of fact to be decided on the circumstances of the particular case . |
| 10 | A decision was taken to use bus technology in producing a body to be mounted on the trucks that had already been designed by the Department and were operating successfully . |
| 11 | They have tree planting campaigns and regular fundraising for another building to be built on the grounds of the training centre . |
| 12 | Professor Botha also said neither woman had been raped , although he added that further tests are to be conducted on the bodies . |
| 13 | VICTIMS of the Hillsborough disaster are to be commemorated on the shirts of their Liverpool soccer heroes . |
| 14 | There was not a soul to be seen on the pavements . |
| 15 | Even in summer there may be smudges of by now off-white snow or icc to be seen on the slopes round about . |
| 16 | There 's work that needs to be done , in most of the major sports grounds , but that 's proceeding and there 's , if you can imagine that there 's , in Shrewsbury for example , a lot of the work which we would want to be done on the grounds have been less than enthusiastic about doing , because they 're likely not to be there for very long . |
| 17 | The contemporary barrow groups of such valley settlements might be expected to be sited on the hills , where they do indeed survive in large numbers . |
| 18 | There have veen ‘ snippets ’ in the national press of a possible impressive memorial to be sited on the cliffs above Dover to commemorate the Battle of Britain . |
| 19 | This view is a direct consequence of the state-centrist approach , and has to be rejected on the grounds that it is theoretically mechanical and empirically false . |
| 20 | There is a conflict between the President and the Prime Minister , at one point causing tanks to be deployed on the streets of Kinshasa . |
| 21 | It also called for observers to be deployed on the borders of Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 22 | Environmental groups are campaigning for more money and importance to be placed on the needs of cyclists , with a target of doubling cycle use over the next five years . |
| 23 | Real attention to the quite sophisticated concepts with which religion is concerned has tended to be dismissed on the grounds that , apart from a select minority , pupils are incapable of any sustained thought , uninterested in such hypothetical and academically conceived ideas which in any case are mostly of historical interest and irrelevant to the modern world . |
| 24 | Their answer to the question they pose is to say that education systems are to be justified on the grounds that they develop ‘ intellectual competence that would otherwise go largely undeveloped ’ ( 1978 , p. 4 ) . |
| 25 | In some schools , there is a tendency for any work to be justified on the grounds that it is ‘ part of a project ’ rather than because of its educational value . |
| 26 | The Brecknell-Munro ‘ B/1 ’ trolley mast was slightly offset towards one side and one end , although identical in appearance to those on Corporation cars , these could only be turned to one side and small arrows had to be painted on the bulkheads ( later inside the headlamp . ) |
| 27 | Bob Johnston , chief inspector with the Department of Economic Development 's Trading Standards Branch , said : ‘ The Order allows for the selling price to be indicated on the goods themselves , a ticket or notice close to the goods or grouped together with other prices on a list close to the goods to which it refers . |
| 28 | Although vague in its definition of responsibilities , the law is nevertheless to be imposed on the museums . |
| 29 | A national curriculum centrally determined is about to be imposed on the schools , and this is bound to encapsulate a philosophy of education , its nature and purpose , that arises directly out of the discontents of the last twenty years . |
| 30 | The Left seemed to be caught on the horns of a dilemma : insurrection was regarded with increased scepticism and democracy with increased respect , but parliamentary socialism continued to reveal its all too familiar limitations . |